Curated by Talking Sculpture Making (TSM) at The Margate School of Art.
Exhibition open 8 – 18 October 2026
Free public discussion with the artists, chaired by artist and writer John Bunker
17 October 2026
Recording available here.
TSM invited London and Margate based artist Melanie Ahmed to show with them at The Margate School of Art. Melanie’s paintings and deconstructed painted objects offer a bridge between the more familiar genre of abstract painting and the composition of form, materiality, colour and surface in the works by the TSM sculptors.
Throughout their careers, the TSM sculptors have chosen not to make work about women’s issues and domesticity, preferring instead to focus on material, process, space and visual connections. For the exhibition and discussion event at The Margate School, TSM opened up conversations about the visual languages of abstract sculpture and painting and how much this can be understood as gendered, fuelling discussions that explored and dissected the content and nuance of the artists’ respective practices and how they each engage with ideas, offering an exchange of ideas around these languages and the evolving nature of women’s art practices.
This exhibition is a partnership between TSM and MAST.
